hurry up and craft

I haven't got anything against Star Trek, I swear. But for all my interest in comics, sci-fi, and all things fantasy, the idea of a Voyager marathon today isn't what I'm feeling. When T, who never gets sick and yet is sick, asked if we could get these episodes out of the way so he could return the discs to his friend, I immediately thought, I need to craft. So, yeah, as long as you're ok with me running around getting things done...
I had a zombie dream last night, where I was trying to cure the "zombie virus" with essential oils (I made a small amount of eucalyptus rub for T the other night for congestion, maybe that's why?), and I've also been on a craft-using-only-what-I-have-kick*. Oh, and I've been reading The Complete book of Incense, Oils & Brews by Scott Cunningham. Put all this together and you get smelly soap balls.

Green eucalyptus and lavender balls, for sick people.

an intersesting mix of sandalwood and violet leftovers, and 2 different types of purples.

Reddish purple sandalwood celtic heart soap in mold

Violet essential oil scented. they were all made into balls, but this pic was supposed to show how cool they looked as chunks, almost crystal like.

Detail of sandalwood celtic heart.

The goods, in nothing fancy packaging.

I used Melt and pour soap and supplies from wholesale supplies plus (except the essential oils, which came from Moonshadow magic shoppe), with Crafters Choice coloring in forest green, candy apple red and something something blue. (A wave of exhaustion just washed over me. too tired to get up and look at the bottles.)
*an explanation of craft-only-what-I-have-kick:
I'm a crack-head when it comes to trying out new crafts. I realized this after xmas, when I bought a crap ton of yarn, a book on liqueurs, a bunch of glassware for apothecary stuff, and couldn't find places to put it all among all the leftover supplies from last years "new" crafting (woodburning/pyrography, stamping, soap, ect). So now I'm not going to buy more craft crap until I've used up (or given away) the old stuff. There was an attempt at a plan to do something each week until i was out of supplies, but that is way too organized for me. I also wanted to discipline myself by not using the new yarn until things get done, but hell, it's a cold winter here in P-town (yeah, that false spring sunshine from last post is gone) and I need a bunch of warm stuff.
Also, I got impatient with liqueurs. I'll give it one more shot, with almond flavoring, and maybe try out some tinctures, but I'm much more comfortable with oils and herbs. 

a week later and...

I haven't forgotten about my new blog, I swear! It's just that now I've started it I am a little...worried that I wont know how to entertain people... Oi, how self-conscious of me.
So I'll start with some pretty pics of crafty stuff from last week to make this more interesting!

Need

 Ever since I learned how to knit about 5 years ago now it has been my main type of craft. Before that I was into sewing and de/re-constructing clothing, but alas was never very good at it. Funny, but I was never into yarn, sweaters, or scarves or any of that really. No interest in socks or shawls, but I began to see women around me knitting more and more. I started to stray from my sewing craft boards and found people who successfully knitted sweaters, hats and scarfs, and while I knew it couldn't be easy, it seemed simpler than getting my crappy sewing machines to work.
I think the real appeal of crafts for me is, one) a sense of creation, and two) a determined individualistic need to make crap myself. So even tho it takes longer to make a simple scarf than say, a skirt from a couple tee shirts, the finished object (FO, by the way) looks better, doesn't usually involve me screaming at a stubborn piece of machinery, and best of all, can be done anywhere, really everywhere! On the bus, at work (approx half my day is downtime), on the couch (it's much quieter during a movie, for instance, than any sewing machine I have ever used), road trips (most of my first FO was worked on in the car between Dela-Where? and Portland,Or).
Since I still have to look at my work I tend to put on a lot of movies I've seen a few times, (or sometimes a few hundred times) like today, working with a candy cane striped wool (think blue raspberry) cowl and watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which to be honest I can only get away with when I'm home alone...

Candy striped wool, lacy cowl, still in progress